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To: HANG THE EXPENSE

I don’t know but....way way too many, yes, to be sure!

James Madison’s prescient view (that the poor would become the tool of the rich (such as Hillary and many more of today’s leftist ruling elite)... if those without property were given the franchise, thusly destroying the Republic) -—

“Viewing the subject in its merits alone, the freeholders [that is, landowners] of the country would be the safest depositories of republican liberty. In future times the great majority of the people will not only be without landed, but any other sort of property. These will either combine under the influence of their common situation, in which case the rights of property and the public liberty will not be secure in their hands; or, which is more probable, they will become the tools of opulence and ambition, in which case there will be equal danger on another side.

[From Max Farrand, Records of the Federal Convention (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1937), 2:203-4.]


35 posted on 02/05/2016 4:41:30 PM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 -- 43 BCE))
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To: faithhopecharity

So,so true.I hope we can keep our republic.


62 posted on 02/05/2016 10:45:15 PM PST by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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